About this episode

The episode discusses the challenges of setting up commercial email and VPN services, the transition of TrueNAS from FreeBSD to Linux, and methods for bridging WiFi to external buildings.

Why setting up commercial email and VPN services is incredibly hard, avoiding TrueNAS’s move from FreeBSD to Linux, why we avoid virtualising storage systems, and bridging WiFi to an external building.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes Using Object Storage with OpenZFS and SeaweedFS   Discussion Jeff Moss explains why setting up private email and VPN services are so difficult   Feedback XigmaNAS   Free consulting We were asked about bridging WiFi to an external building. Point-to-point Wi-Fi bridging between buildings—the cheap and easy way                 See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

People in this episode

Guest: Jeff Moss

Topics covered

• commercial email services
• VPN services
• TrueNAS
• virtualisation
• WiFi bridging
• storage systems

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: TrueNAS, OpenZFS, SeaweedFS, XigmaNAS

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